Blog: Outside works

This week we reached an important milestone for our track relaying project at Glory Mine. Over the weekend, a team of our volunteers finished laying the last few rails which will form the end of our line. Thursday, our overhead line staff successfully negotiated this...

Our staff and volunteers have been out enjoying the sun this week while conducting the annual pre-season inspection and maintenance of our overhead line equipment. With much of our overhead equipment having originally served on first generation Tramway and trolleybus...

Our Traverser has now returned from a comprehensive overhaul thanks to Chesterfield Crane Company. The Traverser plays an important role at the museum as the sole means of access to the tramcars on display in our Great Exhibition Hall and Depots 5 & 6. (Below left...

With the approach of Spring and the re-opening of our tramway, work has stepped up towards completion of our major trackwork renewal project at Glory Mine. In our last update we showed you how fresh ballast was being levelled and compacted to form a firm base while...

The Track Renewal at Cliffside addresses problems we have with drainage and poor top. Our new track uses the 55G2 rail we acquired some years ago. We have used good quality second hand material for our new track and purchase nearly new track relatively inexpensively. ...

Work continues on the track replacement programme between Bandstand and Wakebridge and our Permanent Way Team are hard at work, staff members during the week and volunteers over the weekend. All the track to be replaced has been lifted and the old track bed and...

Only a little over a week has elapsed since Crich Tramway Village closed for the winter, but we are already well into the early stages of a massive programme of maintenance and renewal. We will try to keep you updated on our progress throughout the winter. The ‘Big...

The image above shows excavating a section of the mainline ready for sleeper packing. To keep the Museum’s mile long demonstration tramway operational, a huge variety of tasks take place behind the scenes which are normally never seen by the visiting public. For two...

Closure of Crich Tramway Village for the winter allows our Outside Works team to carry out maintenance and development tasks without disrupting the tram service. In August 2015 we obtained a substantial amount of new tram track which was initially stored on the North...

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